Microsoft Makes New Concessions to Settle Browser Case
New York Times - 41 minutes agoMicrosoft will make changes demanded by rivals to how it will allow consumers in Europe to choose a competing Web browser in its Windows software.
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Bing outage caused by internal code testing
seattlepi.com - 10 minutes agoThe outage that killed Bing for 30 minutes Thursday evening was caused by internal testing of a change of code, Microsoft said Friday.
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Microsoft ironing out Bing glitch
UPI - 13 minutes agoREDMOND, W.Va., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it was working on preventing a repeat of the type of outage that hit its Bing Internet search platform Thursday.
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Microsoft Makes New Concessions to Settle Browser Case
International Herald Tribune - 18 minutes agoMicrosoft will make changes demanded by rivals to how it will allow consumers in Europe to choose a competing Web browser in its Windows software.
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Microsoft Revamps Browser to Meet EU Antitrust Demand
PC World - 35 minutes agoBrowser screen tweaks desired by rivals may result in antitrust settlement this month.
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Marvell Technology shares climb after strong 3Q
San Francisco Chronicle - 42 minutes agoShares of chip maker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. hit a 12-month high Friday after the company reported a jump in profit and offered an upbeat outlook. Marvell "once again delivered strong results and provided an outlook that was better than expected on all... Marvell Technology Group - Windows - Mail - Clients - Microsoft Outlook
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Simon & Garfunkel, Slipknot Headline Next Week's Rock Band DLC
1up.com - 44 minutes agoAnother six tracks are primed to join the Rock Band music library next week. A three-pack of songs from masked metal band Slipknot is coming for $5.49 (440 Microsoft points). If 1960s folk rock is more your speed, there's also a pair of Simon & Garfunkel tracks on the way -- as with nearly all individual tracks, they're priced at $1.99 (160 Microsoft points; 200 Wii Points). Lastly, a free ...
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Microsoft Readies Browser Patch
PC World - 49 minutes agoNext Tuesday's security updates apparently won't clean up the black screen of death, though.
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Parallel Pattern 7: Reduce
Dr. Dobb's Journal - 52 minutes agoStructured patterns for parallel computation Parallel computing - Programming - Microsoft - Graphics processing unit - High-performance computing
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EU antitrust decision on browsers may come by Dec. 15
seattlepi.com - 55 minutes agoThose involved with the European Union's probe of Microsoft's browser-bundling practices think an agreement may be reached by Dec. 15, sources say.
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Microsoft agreeing to EU browser changes?
MacNN - 55 minutes agoMicrosoft has agreed to make some final changes to its web browser ballot system to accommodate requests, a tip indicated Friday. Following pressure on the European Commission from Google, Mozilla and Opera, the company has said it will randomize the order of the browser choices to provide an even playing field and will blank out the "Windows Internet Explorer" text in the title bar to avoid ...
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Bing Back After Outage
InformationWeek - 1 hour 4 minutes agoMicrosoft is investigating what happened in an effort to prevent future downtime.
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Bing Suffers an Outage During Microsoft System Changes
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 22 minutes agoMicrosoft's decision engine hit a wall Thursday. Bing.com suffered an outage lasting half an hour, during which some users were unable to get to the site while those who reached the site didn't receive any results from their queries.
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Microsoft Games on Demand for Windows launches December 15th
Geek.com - 1 hour 24 minutes agoMicrosoft has decided to offer up some competition to the likes of Steam, Direct2Drive, and GamersGate by introducing its own digital game distribution service called Games on Demand for Windows. The name is a mouthful and it will only support Live-enabled games, but is Microsoft’s bid to start earning money from the lucrative PC games digital [...]
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Mathematical Notation Gets Upgrade
Wired News - 1 hour 25 minutes agoWhen existing mathematical symbols wouldn't do the trick, Microsoft researcher Byron Cook and artist Tauba Auerbach drew up a new set, and they hope to have them included in LaTeX, the typesetting program mathematicians use to publish their work.
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Bing bonked by service outage Thursday, Microsoft configured the wrong server
BetaNews - 1 hour 28 minutes agoFor about 40 minutes starting at approximately 9:30 pm EST Thursday evening, by Betanews estimates, the main page of Microsoft's Bing Web site was inaccessible to users. In its place was a message filled with hexadecimal code, leading off with the message, "This isn't the page you wanted!"
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Microsoft, don't hang up on Windows Mobile, but do call for help
BetaNews - 1 hour 28 minutes agoYes, Windows Mobile is down -- really low -- but the operating system isn't bad. The mobile OS is good at the core, meaning the kernel, and multitasks pretty well. It's the user interface and partner model that needs a makeover -- and awfully fast.
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Microsoft releases next two pieces of Forefront security suite
Network World - 1 hour 38 minutes agoMicrosoft Thursday released two more pieces of its Forefront suite that is core to its strategy to merge security and identity technology with software that stretch across clients, servers and the network edge
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Bing goes down for a half hour
Network World - 1 hour 41 minutes agoA day after trumpeting various enhancements to Bing, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologize for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday evening.
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Bing Maps Beta: Microsoft Should Repent and Simplify
Network World - 1 hour 41 minutes agoMicrosoft has released a new beta of the map function inside its Bing "decision engine." After only a few minutes with the Bing Maps beta, just like Microsoft promises, I was able to make a decision: Enough already.
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IT managers cool on Windows 7 upgrade
Network World - 1 hour 42 minutes agoMicrosoft could find Windows 7 harder to reluctant UK IT managers than they think. According to a survey of high-level staff, fewer than half see the new OS being installed on company laptops in the next 18 months.
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